FASHION Magazine

  • Cost per wear: 10 fully styled affordable outfits that make a pricey PS1 a totally reasonable purchase!

    by Randi Bergman
    Cost per wear: PS1
    Photography by Carlo Mendoza. Modeled by Marta/Ford Models. On-figure styling by Richard Autio. Hair and makeup by Margot Keith.

    This one is for all you designer diehards out there—the ones who would risk their rent on the latest Riccardo Tisci masterpiece. You know what it’s like to go without the many, only to behold the fashionable few. But how do you justify that one outlandish designer purchase? We’re here to help. We’ve done the math, and come up with enough affordable outfits to justify that one gotta-have-it-now item.

    Case in point: Proenza Schouler’s latest PS1. Despite the designers’ intention to create just the opposite, Jack and Laz created a beast of a must-have in the classic style back in ’08, and its Spring 2012 iteration has us seeing stars (or rather, tropical flowers). At a cool $1,125 for the Pochette model, we figure you’ve gotta wear this guy quite a few times to make it work, and being bright yellow, that ain’t an easy feat. Working out to just under $113 a wear, we’ve styled 10 full and unique looks on Marta that make the PS1 proud.

    Have a peek. Foam at the mouth. And then be happy that no other single item in the gallery costs anywhere close to $1,125.

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    Posted in 525 America, Bags, Banana Republic, Cost per wear, Editors’ picks, Florals, Gap, H&M, How to wear it, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Moon, Neon, Old Navy, Proenza Schouler, PS1, Riccardo Tisci, Sam Edelman, Style, T by Alexander Wang, Topshop